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• A bootleg recording of Vladislav Delay’s set from DEMF last month, which can be downloaded here (also contains part of Jeff Mills’ and A Guy Called Gerald’s sets)
• A live performance of Monolake’s from Frigid in Sydney
• Rhythm & Sound’s DJ set from Paxahau’s 8th anniversary
• Pole - Steingarten
• Jan Jelinek Avec The Exposures - La Nouvelle Pauvrete
• Jan Jelinek - Loop Finding Jazz Records
• Andrew Pekler - Station to Station
• Kate Simko’s set from DEMF last month, which can be downloaded from her site here.

I’m a little behind in finally listening to the back catalogue of the ~scape label, there are quite a few gems there. Lots of forays into glitch meets jazz. They’ve also put out an interesting series of compilations where IDM/glitch-heads produce hip-hop. Staedtizism 3 is worth checking out for the tracks by luminaries Thomas Fehlmann and Daniel Bell aka DBX.

It’s been 10 years since the last Maurizio release.

Moritz Von Oswald has ended the drought by putting out a new remix of Tony Allen’s “Ole”, on Honest Jon records.

There’s a new Deep Chord release coming out. Limited to 500 copies, 2 X 12 + one 7″ single. Contains remixes from Convextion and Echospace (Rod Modell + SoulTek).

The discogs page for the release is here.

Surprisingly, things are looking great for the dub techno/detroit/basic channel fan these days. Allow me to list:

Scion is releasing records again, along with Chain Reaction artist Substance, on the new label Scion Versions.

A surge of activity from Convextion, with a re-release of his earlier track Miranda, his long-awaited full-length album, and an upcoming release on Arne Weinberg’s label, AW-Recordings.

I spoke to Rod Modell a few months ago and he assured me that he’d be in the studio trying to get some releases out by the end of summer; it looks like the fruits of those labors are starting to surface now. A 10″ on a new label, Hierophant Records, some production work as Spectral Network on the limited and obscure Octal Records, and a remix on the aforementioned re-release of Convextion’s Miranda. Also, for those who missed the extremely limited run of Mike Huckaby’s remixes of Deep Chord on the Synth label last summer, those records have now found distribution through word and sound and are available for purchase in Europe. I believe the now-defunct Watts Music was signed up to distribute those records in the US, no idea what’s going to happen there.

As a parting note, a promising polish(?) netlabel released an intriguing compilation, Mousiken Poiei Kai Ergazou. It’s worth noting that Sustainer makes his first appearance since his 2002 album on Italic in this release. An newcomer by the name of Furthr contributes the standout track on this album.

An old article from The Wire. 10 years old, actually.

I’m tempted to declare the author not fit for writing about electronic music after describing Main Street Records as “uninspired House-y vocal tracks”, since only one of the best house tracks of all time was released on it. But I’ll let it slide, if you’re a fan of techno and not of house that’s a completely valid opinion.

felt like streaming and mixing some of the new records i’d picked up over the last month. i can never find a good track to mix out of the mataya one, so i bailed and started over.

mix 1 starts with some laid-back electro, moves into microhouse and light tech-house territory, then goes into some heavier, glitchier stuff. the mix of the last 3 tracks was shamelessly lifted from mr. c’s classic 2002 essential mix.

mix 2 is tech-house of the darker, deeper variety, with some basic channel stuff and aril brikha thrown in for good measure. ends on a floatier, housey note.

mix 1:

mesak - tufnu (klakson)
johan skugge - kyrkogaard (mitek)
subsound - electrobot (affected)
zvukbroda - kse zo (listen to reason)
omni a.m. & casey hogan - in my time of flying (euphoria)
le dust sucker - keine bewegung berlin (styles kickin’)
steve bug & richie hawtin - low blow (minus)
mataya - new game (listen to reason)

mix 2:

blue mar ten - numbers (deep structure)
second hand satellites - orbit 1.4 (hallucination)
maurizio - m5 (maurizio)
round four - find a way (vocal mix) (main street)
sanasol vs. ozzy - seveneleven (ozzymix) (thule)
aril brikha - on and on (transmat)
david alvarado - klugh (ovum)
juju christian - feel good (zeppelin)